Five companies are set to spend between $660 and $690 billion on AI compute this year. OpenAI alone expects around $50 billion.
The technology that's about to sit inside our jobs, our healthcare, our kids' schooling, our government is being shaped right now by a handful of how it works, how it's used, and who it answers to are all being decided – just not by us.
You're not imagining it: we're watching one of the most consequential public questions of our lifetimes be settled behind closed doors.
The technology that's about to sit inside our jobs, our healthcare, our kids' schooling, our government is being shaped right now by a handful of how it works, how it's used, and who it answers to are all being decided – just not by us.
You're not imagining it: we're watching one of the most consequential public questions of our lifetimes be settled behind closed doors.
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On June 12, a US Commerce export control directive forced Claude Fable 5 offline for every user worldwide – three days after launch, no restoration date.
Anthropic opposed the order.
The model went dark anyway.
Every user depended on one company inside one government’s what concentration costs: access lasts exactly as long as someone else allows.
The fix is infrastructure no single company or government can unilaterally switch off. 💚
Anthropic opposed the order.
The model went dark anyway.
Every user depended on one company inside one government’s what concentration costs: access lasts exactly as long as someone else allows.
The fix is infrastructure no single company or government can unilaterally switch off. 💚
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More Americans say they would rather live next to a nuclear power plant than a data center.
188 opposition groups across 40 states.
$64 billion in projects blocked or delayed.
A moratorium bill sitting on Governor Hochul's desk right now.
The coverage says these communities lls – but what they're actually fighting is critical infra being built around them faster than they can hold a single hearing.
Private capital builds first.
Adoption becomes default.
Default becomes dependence.
By the time the community even gets a chance to vote, the vote's already been rendered ceremonial.
But the people are still packing these town halls because they understand exactly what's being decided without them.
Saying no is the first act of agency.
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188 opposition groups across 40 states.
$64 billion in projects blocked or delayed.
A moratorium bill sitting on Governor Hochul's desk right now.
The coverage says these communities lls – but what they're actually fighting is critical infra being built around them faster than they can hold a single hearing.
Private capital builds first.
Adoption becomes default.
Default becomes dependence.
By the time the community even gets a chance to vote, the vote's already been rendered ceremonial.
But the people are still packing these town halls because they understand exactly what's being decided without them.
Saying no is the first act of agency.
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Something feels off online.
One post gets thousands of views, but the replies feel hollow. Another post makes the same point and gets no visibility at all.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if this thing is even on.
And this week, the numbers caught up to the feeling: Cloudflare’s assed humans in web traffic for the first time.
Being human is no longer the default in a place that meaningfully shapes our lives.
The most valuable thing now might be rebuilding our places, so presence feels trustworthy and we can know what's real again.
One post gets thousands of views, but the replies feel hollow. Another post makes the same point and gets no visibility at all.
Sometimes it's hard to tell if this thing is even on.
And this week, the numbers caught up to the feeling: Cloudflare’s assed humans in web traffic for the first time.
Being human is no longer the default in a place that meaningfully shapes our lives.
The most valuable thing now might be rebuilding our places, so presence feels trustworthy and we can know what's real again.
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Four companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta – are projected to spend ~$700B on AI infrastructure this year, close to double what they spent in 2025.
Whoever owns the infrastructure sets the rules everyone else has to build around – and when the frontier AI compute layer e sheets, the rest of us are building on borrowed ground.
Power concentration this fast is hard to see when it's happening.
Trying to name it anyway is the first step toward building a different path.
Whoever owns the infrastructure sets the rules everyone else has to build around – and when the frontier AI compute layer e sheets, the rest of us are building on borrowed ground.
Power concentration this fast is hard to see when it's happening.
Trying to name it anyway is the first step toward building a different path.
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You’ve spent 15 years contributing open source code.
Now, to stay employable, you rent your capability back from companies that trained their models on your work.
Just so you can keep pace.
This week, Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 alongside workflows that can run hundreds of ey can write, refactor, and debug across entire codebases – because they were trained on ours.
The commons became the input.
The API became the gate.
And the people who laid the foundation are now being forced to subscribe.
Now, to stay employable, you rent your capability back from companies that trained their models on your work.
Just so you can keep pace.
This week, Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 alongside workflows that can run hundreds of ey can write, refactor, and debug across entire codebases – because they were trained on ours.
The commons became the input.
The API became the gate.
And the people who laid the foundation are now being forced to subscribe.
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We ask Claude to draft apologies before we've internalized what we've done wrong.
We ask ChatGPT to edit our emotions into a response that protects us from being known.
Someone asks us a question, and our first instinct is to ask Gemini to answer for us.
We used to hold human or hours, days, years – but now we offload them in minutes to intelligence that doesn't feel.
It's not that AI is inherently bad, it's that the dependency curve is subtle – and what we're starting to outsource to machines is the intricate work of knowing who we are.
We need to build a different path.
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We ask ChatGPT to edit our emotions into a response that protects us from being known.
Someone asks us a question, and our first instinct is to ask Gemini to answer for us.
We used to hold human or hours, days, years – but now we offload them in minutes to intelligence that doesn't feel.
It's not that AI is inherently bad, it's that the dependency curve is subtle – and what we're starting to outsource to machines is the intricate work of knowing who we are.
We need to build a different path.
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Our phones know where we sleep, what we search for at 2am, and who we stop talking to.
We're forced to subscribe to our toothbrushes. Our lawnmowers. Our refrigerators. Our cars.
Our feeds know our anxieties, our preferences, and our deepest convictions.
And all of this data – our lived experiences – somehow doesn’t even belong to us.
Worse: it isn’t being used to make our lives better. It’s being used to make someone else richer at our expense.
We need tech that protects us as aggressively as today’s platforms extract from us.
And those builders need funding. 💚
We're forced to subscribe to our toothbrushes. Our lawnmowers. Our refrigerators. Our cars.
Our feeds know our anxieties, our preferences, and our deepest convictions.
And all of this data – our lived experiences – somehow doesn’t even belong to us.
Worse: it isn’t being used to make our lives better. It’s being used to make someone else richer at our expense.
We need tech that protects us as aggressively as today’s platforms extract from us.
And those builders need funding. 💚
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AI isn't replacing jobs one at a time, it’s collapsing the apprenticeship layer.
Associate research. Junior design. Baseline code. Entry-level analysis.
The first rungs of entire career ladders are being erased – while politicians package it into campaign language and CEOs n.
But people don’t need abstractions after their world's been pulled out from under them.
They need a bridge. 💚
Associate research. Junior design. Baseline code. Entry-level analysis.
The first rungs of entire career ladders are being erased – while politicians package it into campaign language and CEOs n.
But people don’t need abstractions after their world's been pulled out from under them.
They need a bridge. 💚
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Banks are saying it plainly: adapt, or be replaced as "lower-value human capital."
This is what it looks like when the social contract dissolves.
The response has to be bigger than policy. Regulation alone can’t fix a logic that sees people as diminishing returns.
We need to technology serves the public, and people remain the point.
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This is what it looks like when the social contract dissolves.
The response has to be bigger than policy. Regulation alone can’t fix a logic that sees people as diminishing returns.
We need to technology serves the public, and people remain the point.
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Meta cut 8,000 jobs today.
More than 140,000 tech workers laid off this year. And it's only May.
Meanwhile: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are projected to spend $725B on AI infrastructure this year.
The money isn’t gone. It moved.
From payroll to compute.
From people to e talent go?
Not the executives with runway. The engineers, designers, and researchers being replaced by the very systems they brought to life.
They still have skills.
They still want to build.
What they don’t have is a pathway beyond the machine that discarded them.
That’s a gap we think matters.
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More than 140,000 tech workers laid off this year. And it's only May.
Meanwhile: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are projected to spend $725B on AI infrastructure this year.
The money isn’t gone. It moved.
From payroll to compute.
From people to e talent go?
Not the executives with runway. The engineers, designers, and researchers being replaced by the very systems they brought to life.
They still have skills.
They still want to build.
What they don’t have is a pathway beyond the machine that discarded them.
That’s a gap we think matters.
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Maybe AI isn't breaking the value function, but exposing how broken it already was.
> Your job's replaced by a $20/mo agent.
> Your child's tutor doesn't need sleep.
> Your doctor competes with a prompt.
None of that's a failure of AI, it's a system working as designed: maximizedcost.
Except the cost being minimized is us.
Displacement matters.
Regulation matters.
UBI matters.
But they're all downstream of a deeper question: is the system we trust to defend human prosperity still defending humans at all?
> Your job's replaced by a $20/mo agent.
> Your child's tutor doesn't need sleep.
> Your doctor competes with a prompt.
None of that's a failure of AI, it's a system working as designed: maximizedcost.
Except the cost being minimized is us.
Displacement matters.
Regulation matters.
UBI matters.
But they're all downstream of a deeper question: is the system we trust to defend human prosperity still defending humans at all?
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Something's breaking and we all feel it.
> Our friends are shipping 10 apps a week but no one has steady income.
> The S&P's at all-time highs but no one can afford gas.
> Less than 10 companies own the future.
The system's still running, but it's stopped producing the thing it was supposrosperity in return for inputted effort.
That's a value function problem.
And if the value function's broken, the next best step is funding the builders of what comes next.
💚
> Our friends are shipping 10 apps a week but no one has steady income.
> The S&P's at all-time highs but no one can afford gas.
> Less than 10 companies own the future.
The system's still running, but it's stopped producing the thing it was supposrosperity in return for inputted effort.
That's a value function problem.
And if the value function's broken, the next best step is funding the builders of what comes next.
💚
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Dune Analytics laid off 25% of its team.
The reason?
"Teams and agents can now build dashboards and workflows without needing to know anything about SQL"
In 2026, the pattern is clear:
Block, 40%
Gemini, 30%
BILL, 30%
Algorand, 25%
Upwork, 25%
Cloudflare, 20%
Coinbase, 14%
Microsoft
account for tens of thousands more.
128,000+ tech workers have been laid off since January, and all for one shared reason: AI is making teams smaller.
This isn't a downturn. It's a restructuring.
And the institutions doing the restructuring aren't building much for the people they're leaving behind.
But we can.
That's the work that public
goods funding exists to do.
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The reason?
"Teams and agents can now build dashboards and workflows without needing to know anything about SQL"
In 2026, the pattern is clear:
Block, 40%
Gemini, 30%
BILL, 30%
Algorand, 25%
Upwork, 25%
Cloudflare, 20%
Coinbase, 14%
Microsoft
account for tens of thousands more.
128,000+ tech workers have been laid off since January, and all for one shared reason: AI is making teams smaller.
This isn't a downturn. It's a restructuring.
And the institutions doing the restructuring aren't building much for the people they're leaving behind.
But we can.
That's the work that public
goods funding exists to do.
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Bees don't talk to each other 🐝
They coordinate through traces left in a shared environment that signal what to do next.
That’s stigmergy: indirect coordination through environmental signals.
Open source already works this way: bugs, TODOs, unfinished features.
Onchain y balances, proposals, protocol states.
And in a world where AI agents can read and respond to signals autonomously, stigmergy is a way to turn shared environment into shared direction at machine speed.
Read more ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/mechanisms/sti…
They coordinate through traces left in a shared environment that signal what to do next.
That’s stigmergy: indirect coordination through environmental signals.
Open source already works this way: bugs, TODOs, unfinished features.
Onchain y balances, proposals, protocol states.
And in a world where AI agents can read and respond to signals autonomously, stigmergy is a way to turn shared environment into shared direction at machine speed.
Read more ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/mechanisms/sti…
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In 2024, Romania annulled its presidential election. An obscure candidate had surged from 1% in polls to win the first round, boosted by AI-generated deepfakes on social. The court voided the result.
That same year, a finance worker at Arup wired $25 million to scammers after a FO. He'd verified on a video call with his executive team before sending. Every person on that call was AI-generated.
In early 2026, the bet that AI agents will make human software workers redundant wiped $2 trillion from SaaS market cap. Not a cyberattack or a recession. An economy repricing human work as nonessential.
Our current systems weren't designed to protect us from the acceleration we're experiencing.
It's time to build ones that are 🤝
That same year, a finance worker at Arup wired $25 million to scammers after a FO. He'd verified on a video call with his executive team before sending. Every person on that call was AI-generated.
In early 2026, the bet that AI agents will make human software workers redundant wiped $2 trillion from SaaS market cap. Not a cyberattack or a recession. An economy repricing human work as nonessential.
Our current systems weren't designed to protect us from the acceleration we're experiencing.
It's time to build ones that are 🤝
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The world's racing toward artificial and autonomous intelligence, and systemic risk's accelerating right beside it.
But AI isn't inherently adversarial – it's a force multiplier. It just increases whatever we point it at.
And when it’s pointed at areas we're still sorting out – ce scarcity, democratic fragility – risk can compound in the wrong direction.
We're at an inflection point, and the question is as simple as it is critical:
Can we steer an agentic future toward coordinated benefit before the threat surface multiplies beyond us?
d/acc is how we get to yes.
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But AI isn't inherently adversarial – it's a force multiplier. It just increases whatever we point it at.
And when it’s pointed at areas we're still sorting out – ce scarcity, democratic fragility – risk can compound in the wrong direction.
We're at an inflection point, and the question is as simple as it is critical:
Can we steer an agentic future toward coordinated benefit before the threat surface multiplies beyond us?
d/acc is how we get to yes.
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AI misalignment.
Biodiversity collapse.
Weapons proliferation.
Different crises, same underlying cause:
We live in a world of systems that make acting in one's own self interest look like the most rational option, at the expense of what's really best for the collective good.
t the metacrisis, and exponential tech's supercharging its consequences.
But tech can also help us coordinate our way out – if we use it to build systems that make collective interest the most rational choice instead 💚
Biodiversity collapse.
Weapons proliferation.
Different crises, same underlying cause:
We live in a world of systems that make acting in one's own self interest look like the most rational option, at the expense of what's really best for the collective good.
t the metacrisis, and exponential tech's supercharging its consequences.
But tech can also help us coordinate our way out – if we use it to build systems that make collective interest the most rational choice instead 💚
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d/acc is a framework for defensive acceleration.
The idea is simple: build tech that favors defense over offense, distributes power rather than concentrates it.
But the threat it responds to is not.
Progress is outpacing the institutions designed to protect us from its t a point where:
🤖 AI can fake identities faster than systems can verify them
🧬 Pathogens can be engineered faster than vaccines can respond
⚡️ Infrastructure can be targeted faster than anyone can adapt
d/acc is a design philosophy that takes this asymmetry seriously.
It believes that if the tools that threaten us are accelerating, the tools that protect us have to accelerate faster.
The idea is simple: build tech that favors defense over offense, distributes power rather than concentrates it.
But the threat it responds to is not.
Progress is outpacing the institutions designed to protect us from its t a point where:
🤖 AI can fake identities faster than systems can verify them
🧬 Pathogens can be engineered faster than vaccines can respond
⚡️ Infrastructure can be targeted faster than anyone can adapt
d/acc is a design philosophy that takes this asymmetry seriously.
It believes that if the tools that threaten us are accelerating, the tools that protect us have to accelerate faster.
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No single funding mechanism is meant to handle every context.
Quadratic funding surfaces community priorities. Retroactive funding rewards demonstrated impact. Streaming grants sustain contributors between rounds.
Each one covers failure modes the others don't, and the cally compose several 💚👇
Quadratic funding surfaces community priorities. Retroactive funding rewards demonstrated impact. Streaming grants sustain contributors between rounds.
Each one covers failure modes the others don't, and the cally compose several 💚👇
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⚠️ PSA / Scam Alert
Scammers are targeting Gitcoin community members via DM on Telegram, LinkedIn, and potentially other platforms.
❗ Message TLDR: They reference a real wallet address associated with previous Gitcoin Grants distribution and claim that's how they found your your wallet holds tokens on a sunsetting chain that need to be recovered, and they offer to "help" for a % fee.
🙅🏻♀️ If you receive a message like this:
→ Do not respond
→ Do not click any links
→ Do not share seed phrases
→ Do not connect your wallet
→ Do not sign transactions
📣 Gitcoin will never DM you offering to recover funds, and we will never contract others to recover funds on anyone's behalf.
These scammers might be capitalizing on the recent announcement of zkSync Lite deprecation. If you donated through early Gitcoin Grants on zkSync Lite and want to check whether you have funds to withdraw, please follow official instructions from @0xcyp.
👍 X is our official announcements channel. Always verify info here first.
👍 Telegram is our secondary updates channel. Follow along via the official link in the footer at gitcoin.co.
👍 All official Gitcoin emails are sent from an @ gitcoin.co address. Triple check sender info before clicking any contained links.
👍 If you have questions, are uncertain, or want to confirm that communication is legitimate – reach out directly via the 'Partner with Us' link on gitcoin.co.
Stay safe out there frens 💚
Scammers are targeting Gitcoin community members via DM on Telegram, LinkedIn, and potentially other platforms.
❗ Message TLDR: They reference a real wallet address associated with previous Gitcoin Grants distribution and claim that's how they found your your wallet holds tokens on a sunsetting chain that need to be recovered, and they offer to "help" for a % fee.
🙅🏻♀️ If you receive a message like this:
→ Do not respond
→ Do not click any links
→ Do not share seed phrases
→ Do not connect your wallet
→ Do not sign transactions
📣 Gitcoin will never DM you offering to recover funds, and we will never contract others to recover funds on anyone's behalf.
These scammers might be capitalizing on the recent announcement of zkSync Lite deprecation. If you donated through early Gitcoin Grants on zkSync Lite and want to check whether you have funds to withdraw, please follow official instructions from @0xcyp.
👍 X is our official announcements channel. Always verify info here first.
👍 Telegram is our secondary updates channel. Follow along via the official link in the footer at gitcoin.co.
👍 All official Gitcoin emails are sent from an @ gitcoin.co address. Triple check sender info before clicking any contained links.
👍 If you have questions, are uncertain, or want to confirm that communication is legitimate – reach out directly via the 'Partner with Us' link on gitcoin.co.
Stay safe out there frens 💚
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Resilient systems aren't built to avoid stress,
they're built to get stronger because of it.
Bitcoin survived Mt. Gox, regulatory bans across major economies, and state-level mining shutdowns.
Each one hardened the network.
Ethereum survived The DAO hack, the Merge, and every bate about what it should become.
Each one clarified the protocol.
Nassim Taleb calls this antifragility:
systems that need disorder to grow.
And as systemic stress continues to pressure test society, our design choices now determine how resilient our future becomes.
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they're built to get stronger because of it.
Bitcoin survived Mt. Gox, regulatory bans across major economies, and state-level mining shutdowns.
Each one hardened the network.
Ethereum survived The DAO hack, the Merge, and every bate about what it should become.
Each one clarified the protocol.
Nassim Taleb calls this antifragility:
systems that need disorder to grow.
And as systemic stress continues to pressure test society, our design choices now determine how resilient our future becomes.
💚
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Misinformation deployed at scale.
AI accelerating behind locked doors.
Energy one chokepoint away from crisis.
These are coordination problems before they're anything else, and coordination problems need funding mechanisms that work.
Ones that let communities move capital where needed, to solve problems that need to be solved now.
The tools to fund differently already exist.
What's left is the decision to use them.
💚
AI accelerating behind locked doors.
Energy one chokepoint away from crisis.
These are coordination problems before they're anything else, and coordination problems need funding mechanisms that work.
Ones that let communities move capital where needed, to solve problems that need to be solved now.
The tools to fund differently already exist.
What's left is the decision to use them.
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Most funding is zero-sum by design:
One committee decides.
One applicant wins.
Everyone else tries again.
But we think funding should be positive-sum instead:
Communities direct capital.
Demonstrated impact gets rewarded.
Contributors are sustained continuously.
The right only make this real – they rebalance capitalism toward durable impact.
💚
One committee decides.
One applicant wins.
Everyone else tries again.
But we think funding should be positive-sum instead:
Communities direct capital.
Demonstrated impact gets rewarded.
Contributors are sustained continuously.
The right only make this real – they rebalance capitalism toward durable impact.
💚
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Biosecurity research terminated.
Cybersecurity funding gutted.
Climate programs eliminated.
Clean energy projects cut.
Even where our legacy institutions remain standing, centralized authorities decide what gets studied, funded, and built.
Venture capital was never meant to l. But we were.
And we think it's time to build better institutions: decentralized, democratic, and designed to accelerate the defense of what matters.
That defense won't fund itself.
So let's fund it together. 💚
Cybersecurity funding gutted.
Climate programs eliminated.
Clean energy projects cut.
Even where our legacy institutions remain standing, centralized authorities decide what gets studied, funded, and built.
Venture capital was never meant to l. But we were.
And we think it's time to build better institutions: decentralized, democratic, and designed to accelerate the defense of what matters.
That defense won't fund itself.
So let's fund it together. 💚
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🌱 BioFi Pathfinders Round, Gitcoin Grants 22: we funded 14 bioregional teams around the world through quadratic funding:
→ $55K matching pool
→ 1,096 contributions
→ $8,813 in direct donations
But there was an issue: most participants had never used a crypto wallet before.
e Global South, struggled with unreliable internet access and electricity.
Few had the social media presence to mobilize donors at the breadth that quadratic funding rewards.
Even fewer had a network that could readily donate in crypto.
We integrated PayPal to make it work. 🤝
And we learned: onchain funding assumes participants can transact onchain, but bioregional teams coordinate through place-based trust for a reason.
So, what does onchain funding infrastructure look like for communities who aren’t on crypto twitter?
→ $55K matching pool
→ 1,096 contributions
→ $8,813 in direct donations
But there was an issue: most participants had never used a crypto wallet before.
e Global South, struggled with unreliable internet access and electricity.
Few had the social media presence to mobilize donors at the breadth that quadratic funding rewards.
Even fewer had a network that could readily donate in crypto.
We integrated PayPal to make it work. 🤝
And we learned: onchain funding assumes participants can transact onchain, but bioregional teams coordinate through place-based trust for a reason.
So, what does onchain funding infrastructure look like for communities who aren’t on crypto twitter?
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2,400 years ago, the Mohists built defensive siege engineering manuals and distributed them to every city in China.
The theory: if defensive knowledge is free and widely available, aggression becomes uneconomical.
Today the @ethereumfndn published the EF Mandate – a that names the Mohists as an intellectual ancestor of Ethereum's purpose: defensive infrastructure that’s open source and available to everyone.
The Mandate enshrines CROPS (censorship resistant, open source, private, secure) as non-negotiable properties and reminds us that – while the Ethereum Foundation helps steward a defensive protocol – it's the ecosystem’s responsibility to build defensively on top of it.
To do that well, we need to know how to fund the ecosystem sustainably.
And the Mohists showed us that this path is best navigated when knowledge is legible, composable, and freely shared 💚👇
🔗 gitcoin.co
The theory: if defensive knowledge is free and widely available, aggression becomes uneconomical.
Today the @ethereumfndn published the EF Mandate – a that names the Mohists as an intellectual ancestor of Ethereum's purpose: defensive infrastructure that’s open source and available to everyone.
The Mandate enshrines CROPS (censorship resistant, open source, private, secure) as non-negotiable properties and reminds us that – while the Ethereum Foundation helps steward a defensive protocol – it's the ecosystem’s responsibility to build defensively on top of it.
To do that well, we need to know how to fund the ecosystem sustainably.
And the Mohists showed us that this path is best navigated when knowledge is legible, composable, and freely shared 💚👇
🔗 gitcoin.co
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Agentic economy 🤝 public goods funding
How we allocate capital is changing.
To fund public goods well, we answer tough questions fast:
→ Which projects deserve investment?
→ How much impact did they create?
→ Who contributed what?
At scale, these questions can overwhelm entic solutions are taking shape:
→ Constraint-first DAO governance
→ @VitalikButerin's Deep Funding
→ AI-driven proposal evaluation
The opportunities are real.
The risks are real too.
And the choices we make now determine whether AI serves public goods funding or games it.
Full research ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/ai-ag…
How we allocate capital is changing.
To fund public goods well, we answer tough questions fast:
→ Which projects deserve investment?
→ How much impact did they create?
→ Who contributed what?
At scale, these questions can overwhelm entic solutions are taking shape:
→ Constraint-first DAO governance
→ @VitalikButerin's Deep Funding
→ AI-driven proposal evaluation
The opportunities are real.
The risks are real too.
And the choices we make now determine whether AI serves public goods funding or games it.
Full research ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/ai-ag…
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🔒 Deploy a treasury once.
Fund your project forever.
No grants committee,
no governance vote,
no owners.
That's the core claim behind @revnets: autonomous revenue networks built on @juiceboxETH and powered by immutable rules onchain.
It's one of the more radical experiments e right now, and it raises a real question: can code do the job we've always needed human judgment to do?
Probably ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/revne…
Fund your project forever.
No grants committee,
no governance vote,
no owners.
That's the core claim behind @revnets: autonomous revenue networks built on @juiceboxETH and powered by immutable rules onchain.
It's one of the more radical experiments e right now, and it raises a real question: can code do the job we've always needed human judgment to do?
Probably ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/revne…
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⚡ Research from @owocki, @0xd2_eth, @exeuntdoteth, @omniharmonic:
Capitalism is coordination tech that breaks when extraction erodes participation.
→ Housing priced at 20x median income is good for sellers, until no one can afford to buy
→ Healthcare built to deny claims is l people drop plans they can’t use
→ Platforms monetized by user capture are good for investors, until users opt out
🎯 Profit requires participation, which requires coordination. Onchain funding can fill that gap now – and continue to compound as legacy systems erode.
Full analysis ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/the-g…
Capitalism is coordination tech that breaks when extraction erodes participation.
→ Housing priced at 20x median income is good for sellers, until no one can afford to buy
→ Healthcare built to deny claims is l people drop plans they can’t use
→ Platforms monetized by user capture are good for investors, until users opt out
🎯 Profit requires participation, which requires coordination. Onchain funding can fill that gap now – and continue to compound as legacy systems erode.
Full analysis ↓
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/the-g…
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We hosted a competition last for AI developers to predict how $1.5 million would be allocated in GG23.
Once the round ended, the AI with closest answers won the challenge.
gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg23-predict… ht @devanshmehta
Once the round ended, the AI with closest answers won the challenge.
gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg23-predict… ht @devanshmehta
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⚡️ New governance proposal:
Sunset Gitcoin Grants and relaunch as a single, yearlong initiative to fund the d/acc landscape.
This new program would look like:
- Monthly campaigns, each focused on a single d/acc subdomain
- Accelerator-style design with milestone-based g pool supported by yield and coalitional funding
🛡️ Why d/acc?
Funding what matters means aligning capital with areas that are good for humanity and sustainable for the ecosystems that support them.
d/acc is one domain where that convergence is especially visible today.
💚 Read, respond to full proposal ↓
🔗 gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-git…
Sunset Gitcoin Grants and relaunch as a single, yearlong initiative to fund the d/acc landscape.
This new program would look like:
- Monthly campaigns, each focused on a single d/acc subdomain
- Accelerator-style design with milestone-based g pool supported by yield and coalitional funding
🛡️ Why d/acc?
Funding what matters means aligning capital with areas that are good for humanity and sustainable for the ecosystems that support them.
d/acc is one domain where that convergence is especially visible today.
💚 Read, respond to full proposal ↓
🔗 gov.gitcoin.co/t/proposal-git…
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Coalitional funding: a 2026+ primitive 🤝
The difference between fragmented funding and funding that compounds? Sometimes it's not the mechanism – it's the coalition.
SEMATECH, the Global Fund, and @linuxfoundation proved it. @ethereum brought it onchain.
Examples:
- he free-rider issue for Ethereum core contributors, no single sponsor needed
- @ethereumfndn, @uniswap, @yearnfi, and others pooled tens of millions via quadratic funding rounds to support public goods
As capital allocation becomes more plural and programmable, coalitional funding is how the onchain ecosystem coordinates at scale 💚
@owocki and @griffgreen go deeper 👇
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/coali…
The difference between fragmented funding and funding that compounds? Sometimes it's not the mechanism – it's the coalition.
SEMATECH, the Global Fund, and @linuxfoundation proved it. @ethereum brought it onchain.
Examples:
- he free-rider issue for Ethereum core contributors, no single sponsor needed
- @ethereumfndn, @uniswap, @yearnfi, and others pooled tens of millions via quadratic funding rounds to support public goods
As capital allocation becomes more plural and programmable, coalitional funding is how the onchain ecosystem coordinates at scale 💚
@owocki and @griffgreen go deeper 👇
🔗 gitcoin.co/research/coali…
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v1 is closed. @OctantApp v2 begins 🐉
Yield-based funding is shifting how we fund public goods: people allocate yield more willingly than principal – yield feels like excess.
No treasury drawdowns.
No heroic one-offs.
Just durable, continuous flows.
This is maturation. 💚
Yield-based funding is shifting how we fund public goods: people allocate yield more willingly than principal – yield feels like excess.
No treasury drawdowns.
No heroic one-offs.
Just durable, continuous flows.
This is maturation. 💚
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📣 Campaigns:
↳ funding initiatives past and present
↳ see what’s been funded, join live rounds
🔗 gitcoin.co/campaigns
↳ funding initiatives past and present
↳ see what’s been funded, join live rounds
🔗 gitcoin.co/campaigns
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🔬 Research:
↳ what works, what doesn’t, what's emerging
🔗 gitcoin.co/research
📊 Case Studies:
↳ real rounds, real outcomes, real lessons
🔗 gitcoin.co/case-studies
↳ what works, what doesn’t, what's emerging
🔗 gitcoin.co/research
📊 Case Studies:
↳ real rounds, real outcomes, real lessons
🔗 gitcoin.co/case-studies
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⚙️ Mechanisms:
↳ what they are, how they work, when to use
🔗 gitcoin.co/mechanisms
📱 Apps:
↳ who’s using these mechanisms and where
🔗 gitcoin.co/apps
↳ what they are, how they work, when to use
🔗 gitcoin.co/mechanisms
📱 Apps:
↳ who’s using these mechanisms and where
🔗 gitcoin.co/apps
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The weekend closed with @griffgreen and @owocki exploring heart-centered coordination, framing code as a primitive for infrastructure of belonging.
From pluralism to localism, the message was clear: Ethereum is built to enable connection as much as innovation.
From pluralism to localism, the message was clear: Ethereum is built to enable connection as much as innovation.
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At PGF Power Hour, @sejal_rekhan and @owocki dove into the mechanics behind public goods funding.
The focus: how protocol-level tools sustain open ecosystems and civic experimentation.
The focus: how protocol-level tools sustain open ecosystems and civic experimentation.
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